WORK EXPERIENCE:
August 2003 – December 2024: Foreign Credentialing Commission on Physical Therapy, Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Credentials Manager (2019-2025)
Credentials Evaluator III (2003-2019)
- Evaluate foreign educational records of candidates for licensure in the U.S.
- Communicate with applicants
- Revised evaluation forms to speed up processing and improve productivity
- Trained new credentials evaluators
- Assisted in design and implementation of new databases supporting application processing
- Developed narrative data spreadsheet and narrative merge templates to improve consistency, quality, and production of narrative reports.
- Created a credit conversion spreadsheet to convert foreign credits to U.S. semester credits
September 1998 – August 2003: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Office of International Affairs; Indianapolis, IN 46202
Associate Director for International Admissions
- Senior Credentials Analyst for the University
- Direct the area that process international graduate, professional, and undergraduate applications
- Revise application and other admissions-related materials
- Serve as office liaison on Student Information System Functional Advisory and Admissions Implementation Teams.
- Served as a credentials evaluation trainer at national NAFSA conferences
January 1997 – August 1998: The Ohio State University Admission Office; Columbus, Ohio 43210
Systems Engineer/Analyst
- Analyst for the LetterWriter System
- Analyst for the Admissions and Prospects Systems
- Project leader to redesign the Completion Requirements Calculation Logic.
April 1993 – December 1996: The Ohio State University Admissions Office, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Assistant Director of Admissions
- Senior Credentials Analyst for the University
- Developed international credential evaluation training program for new admissions counselors.
- Advised Graduate School and graduate studies committees on international credential evaluation and graduate admission requirements.
- Edited “Country Profiles,” a series of internal publications summarizing foreign educational systems and recommending placement four use by undergraduate and graduate admissions committees.
- Maintained the Admissions Office’s international educational references library.
- Graduate and International Admissions Data Analyst
- Developed a plan for the Graduate and International Admissions Relational Database.
- Designed and produced statistical and other reports on graduate and international applications, admissions, and enrollments using Paradox and MS Access software.
- Management analyst for implementation of new admission procedures
- Coordinated transfer of financial review of international applicants from foreign student adviser’s office to admissions.
- Coordinated implementation of new admissions acceptance requirements including tuition deposit.
- Trained new graduate studies committee chairs and administrative support staff on admission policy and procedure.
- Revised graduate and international application materials
- Consultant on development of international undergraduate recruitment strategy.
May 1985 – March 1993: The Ohio State University Admissions Office, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Admissions Processing Manager
- Managed clerical staff of 22 permanent, nine seasonal, and seven student employees in the processing and evaluation of graduate and international admission applications.
- Developed a database and catalog of updated information about graduate departments and their admission requirements.
- Presented international credentials evaluation sessions at several regional and at 1989 National NAFSA Conference.
May 1979 – April 1985: The Ohio State University Admissions Office, Columbus, Ohio 43210
Admissions Counselor and Staff Assistant (1980-85)
Admissions Counselor (1979-80)
- Counseled international ad domestic students seeking admission to both graduate and undergraduate degree programs
- Acted as staff assistant to the Associate Director
- Redesigned international graduate and undergraduate applications.
- Adapted the Ohio State University’s college preparatory curriculum requirements to permit unconditional admission of qualified international secondary school graduates.
- Conducted research into foreign educational systems and made recommendations on admission and transfer credit policy
- Presented “The Use of Student Grades as a Means of Validating Placement Recommendations” at 1982 Region VI NAFSA Conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
COMMITTEES:
- 2013-2014: TAICEP Standards Committee
- 2010- present: MARRS Limiteds Unlimited Task Force
- 2000-2004: NCAA Foreign Credentials Committee
- 2001: FSA Finalist Selection Committee
- 1998-2001: FSA Pre-Selection Committee
EDUCATION:
- 1993: The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio Master of Arts in Public Administration from the Department of Public Policy and Management
- Specialization in Higher Education Administration
- 1976: The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio Bachelor of Arts with a major in Anthropology
- Participated in the second season of excavations at an Adena burial mound in western Franklin county
- Editor, treasurer, and business manager for a student magazine.
LANGUAGES:
- German: reading skills are fair, but conversation skills are weak.
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